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Data Management and Storage Technology
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Storage Disaster: Will You Recover?

  March 5, 2001
  By Jon William Toigo


In an informal Network Computing survey, 5,000 readers were asked to respond to a number of questions about disaster recovery and storage technologies. Of those surveyed, nearly 2.5 percent responded.

If you have comments or questions about our e-poll, please send an e-mail to webmaster@nwc.com.



  1. Which data-storage topologies does your organization use?

  2. If your continuity or disaster-recovery plan provides a time frame for recovery of critical business functions, how soon do you expect restoration of those functions following an unplanned interruption?

  3. In the event of an unplanned outage, what percentage of your stored data would need to be recovered at an alternate facility?

  4. Do you use or are you considering using a storage-service provider in 2001?

  5. What is the current disk-storage capacity within your organization?

  6. How do you determine new data-storage- capacity requirements?

  7. Do you have an active business-continuity or disaster-recovery program?

  8. How confident are you that your organization could quickly recover critical business processes in the wake of an unplanned interruption?

  9. How often do you test your recovery plan?

  10. How is your recovery strategy organized?

  11. What method do you use to back up critical data?

  12. How recently have you evaluated stored data to determine its content and/or criticality?

  13. What is the estimated percentage of disk-storage capacity you will add in 2001?

  14. How do you plan to recover critical IT operations in the event of a disastrous interruption of normal operations?





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